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Forza Horizon 6 developer Playground has confirmed the global release times for the hotly anticipated racing game, both for its early access release and the full launch. Confirmation comes after Forza Horizon 6 suffered a significant leak on PC that led to the game being made available to pirates well before launch. Playground and parent company Microsoft have been working to plug the leak, and even issued pirates with lifetime hardware ID bans . Some had wondered if the leak would alter Forza Horizon 6’s release plans, perhaps with it being brought forward, but that is not the case. As confirmed in a post on social media , Forza Horizon 6’s early access launch goes ahead as planned on May 15, although on Xbox it’s playable on the evening of May 14 on the west coast in order to align with the eastern timezone. Steam access for everyone begins at 12:01 am with the U.S. Eastern time zone. This is a global release pattern, Playground said, so the Steam launch will be aligned to Eastern ...

Arc Raiders has announced that it will only have two big content updates every year, much to the dismay of players. In a new blog post , Embark Studios revealed that it will release the next big Arc Raiders update, Frozen Trail, in October. This will not only add new locations to explore, but also new enemies, new expansions to the story and lore, and updates to the game's progression systems. It's clear that Embark's ambition is to deliver something expansive and deep in one burst as opposed to drip feeding content throughout the year. The studio confirmed that it will be on a bi-annual schedule for future content updates. "Going forward, we've made the decision to release major updates twice a year – larger in scale, more impactful, with the goal to genuinely change how you play the game," reads the blog post. "Don’t worry, a dedicated live service team will continue running ARC Raiders day-to-day: regular live updates, plus balance fixes, bug fixes, s...

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is a Switch 2-exclusive that was released in November of last year. Up until now, the price has stayed fixed at $69.99. Even today, retailers like Amazon, Gamestop, and Nintendo eShop haven't budged. That's not the case for Best Buy, however. Best Buy has dropped the price of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment by 30% , down to $49.99, with free shipping for a physical copy. In fact, if you're a My Best Buy Plus member, you can get it for $39.99, saving up to 43%. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment on Sale at Best Buy Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is developed by Koei Tecmo. It's the third game in the series (although the first to be exclusive to the Switch 2) and a spinoff of Koei Tecmo's popular Dynasty Warriors franchise. The premise is the same: you're an OP character that can take down hundreds, nay, thousands of minions with one of nineteen Hyrulean champions, including Zelda, Calamo, Mineru, and Rauru. It...

Dropped during a surprise Nintendo Direct on May 7, preorders are officially live for the brand-new Star Fox remake on the Nintendo Switch 2 . If you are a physical collector in the UK, you're in luck, because Amazon has just dropped a fantastic surprise deal for early buyers. Right now, Amazon is price-matching the cheaper digital edition of the game, letting you secure a physical cartridge for just £41.99 . Like with other recent Switch 2 releases, 2026’s Star Fox features a distinct price gap between physical and digital formats, with the standard physical RRP set at £49.99. Amazon’s surprise discount essentially wipes out that physical premium, making it the best place to secure your box and cartridge right now. This is the same situation in the US right now, where both Walmart and Amazon are price-matching the cheaper digital copy and knocking $10 off the price of the game. Nintendo Store Alternative (With Free Bonuses) If you prefer to buy directly from the source, the Nin...

Former Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer design director, David Vonderhaar, has teased his next game and it sounds nothing like Call of Duty. In an interview with Bloomberg , Vonderhaar confirmed that he is not making another military shooter like Call of Duty and instead described it as “if David Lynch made shooters.” It'll be a co-op game that isn't aiming to compete with Call of Duty, as players will be teaming up to face environmental challenges while combating other players. As of right now, the title for the game has yet to be revealed. Vonderhaar left Treyarch in 2023 , a year before the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. It was a shock for fans, as Vonderhaar was one of the key minds behind some of the greatest Call of Duty games, such as Black Ops 2. Shortly after his departure, he opened a new studio known as BulletFarm . The team had been working on its first game since 2024, but it seems like the game has been scrapped in favor of a different project. It was c...

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic won't be another bloated single-player game that takes over half a decade to develop, game director Casey Hudson has insisted. Via an interview with Bloomberg , we learned a few new details about the highly anticipated Star Wars RPG, which aims to be a spiritual successor to BioWare's much-loved Knights of the Old Republic. Hudson talked a bit about the aspirations for the final product, both for how long it will take to produce and how long it will take players to finish it. For starters, Hudson isn't backing down on his claims that Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic will release before 2030 , but doesn't have an exact release date in mind. He noted that he has never spent more than four years on a game and has no desire to spend five to seven years working on one, like some other studios. He also ruled out the use of AI to help speed up development, calling it "creatively soulless" and "unhelpful." The team wil...

Sega has confirmed it has canceled its mysterious "Super Game" as part of a company-wide pull back from free-to-play following weak sales. Reporting its 2026 fiscal year financial results, Sega said new free-to-play games had struggled, and while reviewing its ‘Games as a Service’ strategy, it had decided to cancel Super Game. Sega’s Super Game was never made entirely clear, although Sega had said it was due out by the end of March 2026. When the project was announced in 2021 , it formed a part of a long-term initiative that also involved a new first-person shooter developed at a European studio. Lots of industry buzzwords were used to describe what Sega was going for, such as ‘global,’ ‘online,’ ‘make into media,’ and ‘IP utilization.’ Sega had hugely ambitious sales targets for Super Game, too, aiming to bring in 100 billion yen (approx. $634 million) across its lifetime. News on Super Game has been thin on the ground, however. In November 2021, Sega said it was thinking ab...

A new video has revealed a ton of exciting new information on the original, scrapped version of Uncharted 4 by Amy Hennig. For those that don't know the history, Amy Hennig was the writer and creative director of the first 3 Uncharted games. She was working on a fourth game for the PS4, but abruptly left the project in early 2014 and was replaced by Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann. Rumors regarding her departure have circulated for years, but former Naughty Dog employee Gabriel Betancourt recently suggested to YouTuber Kiwi Talkz that Hennig's version of the game wasn't meeting internal standards. Sony reportedly threatened to pull funding from the game if things weren't turned around, and that's when Druckmann and Straley took over. In 2021, Nathan Drake actor Nolan North stated that eight months of work on Uncharted 4 were thrown out after the change. For years, fans have wondered what Uncharted 4 would've looked like had Hennig stayed on board. A new video...

After months of concerns regarding 007 First Light's performance, IO Interactive has confirmed the upcoming Bond game will run at 60fps. When 007 First Light's gameplay was revealed in September 2025, fans grew concerned about the game's performance. The frame rate appeared to be pretty choppy, particularly during big, busy action sequences. IO Interactive seems to have used its extra time on First Light's development to smooth out performance issues, and has confirmed that the game will run at 60fps on the PS5 Pro and will hit 60fps in performance mode on base PS5. 007 First Light will also have a quality mode, which will allow the game to have higher fidelity, but run at 30fps. "007 FPS" they said back in September...👀 Pleased to showcase 007 FIRST LIGHT is running at 60 FPS on PS5 Pro. Let us know on what platform will you play on May 27th? 👇 Pre-order now and get a free Deluxe Edition upgrade. https://t.co/TYuWmcA0nA #007FirstLight … pic.twitter.com/si...

“An expansion is not about fixing; it's about evolving,” Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred ’s Associate Game Director Zaven Haroutunian tells me. “And if we do our job, they are expanding and evolving toward solving existing problems. That’s a win-win. I look at our teams as being heavy hitters when it comes to this stuff. They're operating at such a high level, and they've got enough experience under their belt where they can do just that.” Diablo IV debuted three years ago, and like previous entries in the groundbreaking action-RPG series, it has been evolving and expanding ever since. From regular seasonal updates and overhauls of existing systems to new activities and a story-driven campaign in the form of Vessel of Hatred, there’s been a lot . With that, Diablo IV’s second major expansion, Lord of Hatred, on paper might sound like more of the same, albeit supercharged. Instead of one new class, there are two, with the return of the fan-favourite sword-and-board-wielding Palad...

Darkest Dungeon 2 developer Red Hook Studios has said it won't use AI to replicate the voice of deceased voice actor Wayne June. Studio co-founder Chris Bourassa spoke about how the passing of the iconic narrator will affect the series going forward in a reply to a post on the Darkest Dungeon subreddit (via Kotaku ). He told fans to rest assured that Red Hook will "never, ever erode" June's legacy by using AI to attempt to copy his performance. "In one of his last emails to me, Wayne gave us permission to train an AI on his voice, something he'd staunchly opposed prior to the end," Bourassa said. "We'd never asked to do it. I think he was trying to put the game/team/fans first - offer us a 'way forward.' I declined, and we donated to his family anyway." Red Hook confirmed that June had passed away in January 2025. Bourassa shared a message at the time, saying that it was "one of my life's greatest honors to have written f...

A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save big on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Super Mario RPG, Star Fox for Switch 2, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties, Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, May 10, below. DJI Mini 3 Drone for $379 DJI drones are well-known for being high-quality and expensive. Today, you can score a DJI Mini 3 (DJI RC) drone for $379.99, saving you 31% off MSRP. This drone packs in a 4K HDR camera, a 10km range, and up to 51 minutes of flight time. No registration is needed for this drone, meaning you can fly without any paperwork or remote ID. Save $20 Off Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds for Switch 2 Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds launched late for Nintendo Switch 2, but SEGA delivered with a proper physical that's on the game card. Right now, you can save $20 off a physical copy of CrossWorlds for Switch 2 at Best Buy. If you haven't checked out SEGA's wild, collab-filled racer, now is a great time....

Developer TT Games and publisher Warner Bros. Games have quietly added controversial DRM software Denuvo to Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight ahead of its launch later this month. PC players were quick to raise the alarms after Reddit user luffy_3155 shared that the Lego Batman game's Steam page now features a 3rd-party DRM tag. The last-minute addition sees the anti-piracy measure baked into the game just weeks ahead of its launch for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S May 22, 2026. Game developers often include Denuvo to fight back against piracy, but the tech has faced backlash from PC players due, more than anything, to its negative effects on each individual game's performance. Now that Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is confirmed to use it, too, some players are saying they're ready to write off buying a PC copy altogether. "Oh well if they ever fix performance and remove Denuvo, I'll buy it on a steep sale," one player said . "B...

Grand Theft Auto 6 players are hoping Rockstar Games will have news to share this week after some fans reported receiving marketing emails from Sony. Rumors of an impending announcement kicked up yesterday when some fans shared that Sony had sent emails instructing them to upgrade from a PlayStation 4 to a PlayStation 5. As collected by X/Twitter user @videotech , images of the alleged marketing push have been published by a growing number of users online, with the message seemingly tied to those who have wishlisted the game but have yet to pick up a PS5. "Grant Theft Auto 6 is on your wishlist," the email being shared around says. "Get a PlayStation 5 today to be ready for when Grand Theft Auto 6 launches on November 19, 2026." According to reports, Sony is sending emails to some people who currently don’t own a PS5 and who have GTA VI wishlisted on the PlayStation Store to market them to buy a PS5 https://t.co/YgtmDaQxos — ben (@videotech) May 8, 2026 The e...

Psychonauts and Kiln developer Double Fine Productions has laid the groundwork to become the latest Microsoft studio to form a union. As first reported by Aftermath , the San Francisco-based game studio filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board May 7, 2026. The organization effort with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) follows the 450 Blizzard Entertainment staff who voted to unionize in August 2025, and the union formed by 165 developers at id Software the following December, as well as others. As outlined in the petition, the Double Fine union will include 42 "regular part-time and full-time employees." “On May 7, the workers at Microsoft studio Double Fine Productions announced their decision to form a union with CWA to preserve and extend the studio’s commitments to creative excellence, diversity and inclusion, and worker quality of life," CWA told Aftermath in a statement. "In tandem with requesting voluntary recognition from the c...

The League of Legends trading card game, Riftbound, is back with another set this year in the form of Unleashed. The latest set is already available in China, with a global release on May 8th. With this set comes new mechanics such as Ambush, XP, and Stun, just to name a few. There’s even a new card rarity and some extra love to the huge roster of Legends like Vex and Vi, who are prominently featured in the new champion or pre-constructed decks. This is the TCG’s third set, which signals one step closer to a simultaneous global release – something fans can appreciate after the recent bans. From what I’ve played so far, these new additions seem to showcase a bit more power creep than what I experienced in the last set. First and foremost, the champion decks continue to be the best jumping-in point for new fans of the game. As mentioned earlier, the two new decks releasing alongside the booster set are led by the Legends Vex and Vi. I was able to play games with both, and each showcased ...